Fear: Across the Disciplines

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Benjamin Lazier and Jan Plamper Chapter 1. Fear, Anxiety, and Their Disorders 15 Richard J. McNally Chapter 2. The Biology of Fear: Evolutionary, Neural, and Psychological Perspectives 35 Arne Öhman Chapter 3. How Did Fear Become a Scientific Object and What Kind of Object Is It? 51 Ruth Leys Chapter 4. Soldiers and Emotion in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Military Psychology 78 Jan Plamper Chapter 5. Fear of a Safe Place 99 Jan Mieszkowski Chapter 6. The Language of Fear: Security and Modern Politics 118 Corey Robin Chapter 7. The New York Stock Market Crash of 1929 132 Harold James Chapter 8. Living Dead: Fearful Attractions of Film 148 Adam Lowenstein Notes 171 Contributors 229 Index 233 vi Contents ...